Greenie-poo - day 01- acrylic panel cutting
to show the comparison between a rough 18T blade for general purpose wood cutting and a laminate/plywood/plastics finishing blade with 140T...
under 10 bucks at your local hardware store, or mine at least
laid out one of the 24x24 sheets of green panel to do a test cut. I decided to try and tak a half inch off one edge, if everything survived then I'd know this blade rocks and wouldnt have to worry about the real cuts...
(this blade ended up being the bomb-diggity
) Only issue was when the the piece on the scrap side falls away (unsupported) it tended to crack a small nip and start to fall before the blade actually finished the cut
solved that with a camera tripod. the support prevented the fall-away until the cut was actually complete
tell meh that blade aint teh rockzorz!
both 14x14 side panels done
price to pay is a friggin mess!
oh well, time to by a vaccum anyway
and there be all the cut panels. one of the narrow ones needs about 1/32 of sanding down to bring it flush with the others, prior to edge cleaning. could have been way worse so Ill consider it win at this point
These panels are done as far as the circular saw goes. They will get some various holesaw/drillout treatments very soon
that consumed the better part of the day so I set up the drill press to do a test (head start on tomr)
drilled out one of the cubes (without a jig) as a test, using the drill for 6-32
tapped
win
tomr I have to make a jig to hold the cubes sturdy and centered while drilling them out (need to make 30) then Ill drill em out and tap em. That should consume a good portion tomr. Luckily I am off monday
The panel cutting was more time consuming than I thought it would be, simply because after each cut the homemade whole fence structure had to be repositioned and resecured, and checked 2x before cut. If I do more acrylic cases I think a table saw, or a homeade specialty table is in order to speed up the process. This was fun as hell tho, using a fence-on-the-fly and a circular saw
thanks for watching
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